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Collective Blog of Health IT Episode 264: One Mistake Is All Hackers Need: Building a More Resilient Health Care Cybersecurity Strategy Health care organizations have never had more technology—or more reasons to protect it. Electronic health records, connected medical systems, cloud applications, third-party vendors, remote access and a growing number of digital tools have transformed…

Collective Blog of Health IT Beyond Clinical Data: Connecting Social Care Through Interoperability Healthcare interoperability is often discussed in terms of hospitals, health plans, EHRs, APIs, and clinical data. But what happens when the information needed to improve someone’s health exists outside the walls of the healthcare system? That question was at the heart of…

The Collective “Blog” of Health IT A Companion Blog to The Collective Voice of Health IT Podcast The Missing Pattern: How Data and AI Could Transform Women’s Health   For women living with endometriosis, getting a diagnosis can take an average of seven years. For these women struggling with their disease, the issue isn’t that…

The Collective “Blog” of Health IT- WEDI Podcast Episode 260 Beyond the Billing Code: Making Healthcare Data More Meaningful with Dr. Jay Anders, Medicomp   Healthcare generates enormous amounts of data, yet one of the most fundamental challenges in health information remains surprisingly difficult: accurately representing what is happening with the patient. A billing code…

Five Insights from the WEDI Summer Forum By: Nancy Spector, WEDI Senior Director, Federal Affairs WEDI’s 2026 Summer Forum in Chicago was a big success with its focus on the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization regulations (0057-F and 0062-P). Attendees were offered a “whirlwind” of valuable information from expert speakers (ending day two on the…

The Collective Blog of Health IT, a Podcast Episode Companion Episode 256- Clinical Decision Support at the Point of Care: Advancing Value-Based Care Through Smarter Laboratory Testing By: Michael McNutt As healthcare organizations continue their journey toward value-based care, clinicians face a growing challenge: making increasingly complex laboratory and genomic testing decisions while navigating fragmented…

The WEDI Genomics Workgroup: Latest Fact Sheet on Genetic Counselors Sandra Rolfe, PhD, Optum, WEDI Genomics Workgroup Chair As chair of WEDI’s Genomics Workgroup, a position I volunteered for and took on a couple of years ago, I have the opportunity to better educate the health IT community on issues related to genomics. The topic…

WEDI No Surprises Act Provider Survey Results The No Surprises Act was signed into law on December 27, 2020, as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Public Law 116-260). The requirements for providers to issue Good Faith Estimates (GFEs) to uninsured and self-pay patients were put into place on Jan 1, 2023. Considering that…

My Experience at the June X12 Meeting Nancy Spector, WEDI Senior Director, Federal Affairs In my 20 years of involvement in X12 and attending meetings, I have had on multiple occasions to explain what an X12 meeting is and what happens at one. These explanations have been for bosses, colleagues, and newcomers who have either…

Collective Voice Insights From EDI to APIs: Lessons from a Career Shaping Health care Interoperability Michael McNutt, WEDI VP, Education & Events July 21, 2026   Health care interoperability is often discussed in terms of today’s innovations—FHIR APIs, digital health ecosystems, artificial intelligence, and real-time data exchange. Yet every advancement builds upon decades of policy…